The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 21

‘Oh, in that case,’ she answered, ‘we had better go to Squirrel Island; it is lonely enough, and too far off for anyone to follow us there.’

Who acts: Princess, we, case · What happens: answer, have, go, be, follow · To what, where: Squirrel Island, us

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, we, case), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 case	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 case	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 case	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 case	det
6	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 answered	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 case	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 case	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 answered	nsubj
10	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 had	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 answered	conj
15	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 had	advmod
16	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 had	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Island	case
18	Squirrel	Squirrel	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Island	compound
19	Island	Island	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 lonely	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 lonely	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 lonely	cop
23	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 answered	conj
24	enough	enough	ADV	_	23 lonely	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 off	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 off	cc
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 far	advmod
28	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 off	advmod
29	off	off	ADV	_	33 follow	advmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 anyone	case
31	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 off	obl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 follow	mark
33	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	23 lonely	parataxis
34	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 follow	obj
35	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 follow	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Princess				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	we			well property	tree rules
3	go	infinitive	we not said here		Squirrel Island		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location
4	is	present	case			enough, lonely property	tree rules
5	follow	to-infinitive		us	there	off property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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